Gmail Creator Thinks Email Will Last Forever. And Hasn’t Tried Google Wave.
November 20, 2009 at 20:30 PM EST
" Email is not going to disappear. Possibly ever. Until the robots kill us all. " - Paul Buchheit , creator of Gmail, co-founder of FriendFeed, currently doing vague infrastructure things at Facebook. Today, at our RealTime CrunchUp event in San Francisco, Buchheit and Threadsy founder Rob Goldman sat down for a chat with our own Steve Gillmor and Erick Schonfeld. The topic was: Can We Kill Email Already? All Aboard The Micro-Message Bus. So can we kill email?